{"id":43295,"date":"2024-07-29T17:14:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T12:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=43295"},"modified":"2024-07-29T17:27:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T12:27:18","slug":"venezuelas-president-nicolas-maduro-re-elected-for-the-third-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/venezuelas-president-nicolas-maduro-re-elected-for-the-third-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro re-elected for the third term"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CARACAS (Reuters): Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been re-elected for the third term, the country\u2019s election authority said Sunday with the US expressing \u201cserious concerns\u201d on the electoral process.<\/p>\n

The authority said Maduro bagged 51.2% of the vote while opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez received 44%.<\/p>\n

Maduro, appearing at the presidential palace before cheering supporters, said his re-election is a triumph of peace and stability and reiterated his campaign trail assertion that Venezuela’s electoral system is transparent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A poll from Edison Research, known for its polling of US elections, had predicted in an exit poll that Gonzalez would win 65% of the vote, while Maduro would win 31%.<\/p>\n

Local firm Meganalisis predicted a 65% vote for Gonzalez and just under 14% for Maduro.<\/p>\n

About 80% of ballot boxes have been counted, said National Electoral Council (CNE) president Elvis Amoroso in a televised statement, adding results had been delayed because of an “aggression” against the electoral data transmission system.<\/p>\n

The CNE has asked the attorney general to investigate the “terrorist actions” Amoroso said, adding participation was 59%.<\/p>\n

The opposition had earlier said voters had chosen a change after 25 years of socialist party rule.<\/p>\n

“The results cannot be hidden. The country has peacefully chosen a change,” Gonzalez said in a post on X at around 11 p.m. local time before the results were announced.<\/p>\n

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado reiterated a call for the country’s military to uphold the results of the vote.<\/p>\n

“A message for the military. The people of Venezuela have spoken: they don’t want Maduro,” she said earlier on X. “It is time to put yourselves on the right side of history. You have a chance and it’s now.”<\/p>\n

Venezuela’s military has always supported Maduro, a 61-year-old former bus driver and foreign minister, and there have been no public signs that leaders of the armed forces are breaking from the government.<\/p>\n

Serious concerns<\/h2>\n

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday expressed “serious concerns” on the outcome saying the Venezuelan election result declaring Maduro the winner is not accurate.<\/p>\n

“We have serious concerns that the result announced does not reflect the will or the votes of the Venezuelan people,” Blinken said in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CARACAS (Reuters): Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been re-elected for the third term, the country\u2019s election authority said Sunday with the US expressing \u201cserious concerns\u201d on the electoral process. The authority said Maduro bagged 51.2% of the vote while opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez received 44%. Maduro, appearing at the presidential palace before cheering supporters, said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":43303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19940,19939,19941],"class_list":["post-43295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-venezuela-election","tag-venezuela-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43304,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43295\/revisions\/43304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}